Jess' Planning Thread!

First of all – thank you Tammy for creating this forum. I never would have been able to have the kind of destination wedding I wanted without it. There is so much useful info on here. Second of all – thank you to my shouters for keeping me sane during this time. You girls are amazing, and have become really great friends to me. I know I can count on you girls and that means a lot.

With that, here is my planning thread – I can’t believe I leave in less than 2 weeks! –

“Will you be my Bridesmaid” Cards

Bachelorette Party Vegas of course! I had way too much fun with 12 of my girlfriends. We stayed at THEHotel at Mandalay Bay which is perfect for bachelorette parties as all the rooms are suites with 2 bathrooms! And a bar in the room of course

Iâ€™m going back and forth on these shoe clips (by bpoetic on etsy) I bought or these clip on earrings â€“ I bought them both to clip on the shoes for a little extra pazazz â€“ here they are (Iâ€™m leaning toward the shoe clips):

FIâ€™s Suit

Groomsmen/Bridesmaid/Ringbearer Outfits

My bridesmaid dresses were made by sarahseven from etsy and I let the girls choose from 3 different versions Peachy Keen Dress

Flock Dress

Tulip Dress

The groomsmen suits are from Expressâ€¦they are wearing gray pinstriped pants, a suit vest, and a yellow collared shirt with an ivory tie, and gray chucks â€“ pic below but shirt is the wrong color and tie is missing:

Iâ€™m doing a letter with koozies as I have too many guests for full on out of town bags and I wouldnâ€™t be able to relax if I had to put that many together. I donâ€™t have either finished yet but the koozies are yellow and gray. Well attach them to the letters when we get their with gray ribbon and have them each delivered to the guests rooms.

Flowers I would love cream colored peonies but I donâ€™t think that is possible in Mexico right now â€“ so all cream colored somethingâ€¦and for my bridesmaids yellow flowers of some sort â€“ I love ranunculus.

Invitations and Calligraphy

My envelopes were white â€“ this pic is from her etsy store

Pearl Rings

Hereâ€™s a thread on these:

Leather Passport Covers

Sarongs (sorry canâ€™t find a pic of these)

Pashminas They are a light gray from that group order Jac did.

Travel Jewelry Rolls

Flip Flops Just dark gray Old Navy flip flops that they can wear at the beach with their dresses for the reception

We really wanted the Flip Mino Camcorders that I recommended to some girls on here but FI was adamant on the camcorder being 1080P and HD (heâ€™s a techy computer geek) so we found this Aiptek version for less ($120 on amazon) than the HD Mino version which was $249 â€“ and with 9 groomsmen, that would just be too much $$

We also bought their ties (ivory), belts, and yellow socks

Welcome Dinner â€“ BananaCantina:

I was looking for an inexpensive option since we had so many people. We wanted to keep the cost down. I found Banana Cantina on tripadvisor and Iâ€™m so happy I did. We get to rent out the whole restaurant on Thanksgiving night. It fits about 55 people and we got a better deal than any of the other restaurants I was looking at â€“ and this one is even nicer than half of them. It is really modern and trendy which we loved. Also, Jae the manager is American so she was really easy to talk to. She was also great over email and always got back to me in a timely manner.

And here is our postcard invitation from vistaprint

Rehearsal Dinner Dress

J Crew Cutwave Dress

Some of my way too many Wedding/Honeymoon Clothing purchases (only because I love it when people post these )

Weâ€™re having a Catholic ceremony at Iglesia De Guadalupe. I love this Church, it is so gorgeous.

Resort / Reception â€“ Dreams Puerto Vallarta

The reception will be on the beach with a dance floor, lounge, and dinner tables.

Wedding Coordinator

After joining this forum and picking Puerto Vallarta â€“ I fell in love with the Dazzling Details after finding them on here (I am a horrible DIYâ€™er and knew I needed the help of someone talented). They have been nothing but great and I canâ€™t wait to see what they come up with.